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NCFST Director Inducted Into the International
Academy of
Food
Science & Technology
Chicago,
Ill. – April 7, 2006
Martin Cole, Ph.D.,
Director of the
National
Center for Food Safety
and Technology at the Illinois Institute of Technology has been chosen to be a Fellow
of the International Academy of Food Science & Technology (IAFoST). He will be
inducted into IAFoST during the 13th World
Food Congress in
Nantes,
France
September 17-21, 2006. New fellows will be recognized during the
opening ceremony of the Congress.
Cole has held a number of senior positions within the food
industry. Prior to taking up his current
position, he was Deputy Chief Executive of Food Science
Australia
. He has also been Head of Microbiology for
Unilever in
England
and the
Netherlands
, as well as Group Director of Food
Safety for Nabisco in the
U.S.
Cole has over 10 years experience with the
Codex Food Hygiene Committee where he has served on a number of different
country delegations including the
U.S.
and
Australia
. He is the chairman of the International
Commission for the Microbiological Safety of Foods.
Cole is a native of the
United
Kingdom
and received his Ph.D. in Microbiology in 1988
from the
University of
East Anglia,
U.K.
He has presented and published over 80 papers
on many aspects of food safety including predictive microbial modeling, risk
assessment and novel food preservation technology. He has also received many awards, including
more recently the W.C. Frazier Memorial Lecture award from the
University of
Wisconsin-Madison for outstanding
contributions in food microbiology and the Ivan Parkin Lecture award at the International Association of Food Protection.
The IAFoST consists of Fellows of the Academy who are
distinguished food scientists and technologists, elected by their peers. The Academy is a source of scientific
personnel and information to support international activities related to food
science and technology. The Academy acts
as an advisor to the International
Union of
Food Science & Technology (IUFoST).
The IUFoST, a country-membership organization is the only
global food science and technology organization of its kind. It is a voluntary, non-profit association of
national food science organizations linking the world’s best food scientists
and technologists.
The
National
Center
for Food Safety and Technology (NCFST) is a research consortium of industry,
government, and academia which addresses the food safety implications of emerging technologies in food processing and
packaging. The
National
Center serves as a
neutral ground for food safety research, education, and information exchange
among food industry, government, and academic scientists. NCFST
is located at Illinois Institute of Technology's Moffett Campus (near
Chicago) in
Summit-Argo,
Illinois.
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